Hollywood is no stranger to these kinds of cyberattacks. In December, a hacker who admitted to stealing nude photos from various stars, including Scarlett Johansson, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Studios also have been victims of hacking, as The Hollywood Reporter relayed last week.

"I know of major Hollywood studios that have worked on distribution rights and other negotiations with Chinese companies and have been hacked before those negotiations had been completed because the Chinese wanted their negotiation playbook," cyber-espionage expert Dmitri Alperovitch, former vp threat research at McAfee and co-founder of CrowdStrike, told THR. "The other side knows exactly what they're planning to do and will cheat and get their way in the negotiation."

Meanwhile, the New York Timesrecently was revealed as being the victim of an advanced hacking group sponsored by the Chinese government.